Author: Derek Neighbors Date: Subject: Linux for small business
> Sorry, but after reading the first line of the "About Free Software" > section, "Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free
> to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. " I cannot
> buy into this"movement" The clear implication is they feel anything
> someone writes belongs to everyone, not the person who wrote it. That
Where on earth are getting this from? That sentence says FREE SOFTWARE is a matter of freedom. Not ALL SOFTWARE is a matter of freedom. It says people SHOULD be not people MUST. They feel people should care about about a better society and write free software to help society. I do not see where they say any author of software must abandon all their rights.
> is the very system that was tried and failed miserably in Easter
> Europe. I do not and will not buy into it in the least. It is the
> same mentality that drove me away from the Libertarian party in the
> political world. Under that system, there is no incentive to improve
> or excel.
How can you compare software to a Totalitarian state of the Eastern Block?